Emerson

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The Emerson type was designed by Joseph Blumenthal (proprietor of the famous Spiral Press in New York) in the 1930s. Originally cut by hand in metal under the name “Spiral,” the font was soon after released for machine composition under the name “Emerson” (after the hand-printed Spiral Press edition of Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson). Small caps and an Italic were added for the hot type version.

When originally reviewed in Signature in England the writer commented on how Emerson, with its strong serifs and good weight, was well suited for offset and other printing methods; aside from the then-dominant letterpress: “The open counters, absence of fine lines and sturdy, though not heavy, serifs make it particularly suitable for offset and gravure reproduction.” With that in mind it is ironic that Emerson is the only one of the typefaces deemed among the twenty classics by Monotype that had not been offered in a digital version — until now.

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And what are you reading, Miss — ? “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda”; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding — joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

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